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New iTunes Hack Makes Permanent MP3 from Streams November 20, 2003 By Bill Rosenblatt

Bill Zeller, a software developer, released MyTunes, a companion program to Apple's iTunes online music service for Windows, on October 26th. iTunes includes a feature that lets users stream music files over a local network to other users; MyTunes augments this feature by enabling other users to save those streamed files onto their hard drives as unencrypted MP3s.

This is at least the second time that someone has created an extension to iTunes's network streaming feature that expands the content rights that iTunes grants its paying customers; the first, created within a month of iTunes's original launch in April 2003, enabled users to stream files over the Internet, not just workgroup networks. MyTunes enables users to go beyond the music licensing terms implied in streaming, which are modeled on those of radio broadcasting; instead, it facilitates music storage for on-demand listening, which carries a more stringent set of licensing terms than those that the record companies undoubtedly granted to Apple when approving the original iTunes architecture.

Is this software likely to suffer the same fate as Elcomsoft's companion software for Adobe's eBook reader, which became the subject of prosecution under DMCA 1201? Probably not, because it doesn't break iTunes' copy protection in order to create MP3 files from audio streams. It does not create access to content where there was none before; instead, it changes the nature of such access so that different licensing terms apply. Not only does DMCA 1201 not apply, but it is hard for us to see how charges of contributory copyright infringement could stick either.

Therefore the legality of MyTunes is probably a function of its use, not the software itself. Zeller is careful to explicitly state on his website that MyTunes should only be used for legitimate purposes and that copyright infringement is illegal. So whom can the RIAA sue if someone decides to use MyTunes as a piracy machine? We don't see any reasonable way to sue the technology out of existence, so the RIAA will be forced to go after individual infringers. Our opinion is that this has always been its best strategy, given the alternatives, no matter how unpopular it is. _______________________________________________ copyDOWN mailing list copyDOWN@inventati.org https://www.inventati.org/mailman/listinfo/copydown

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